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...Jonathan Mostow, certainly didn't create a must-see mood - though, in a John Horn story in the Los Angeles Times, the principals issued statements of the sort written by lawyers after the settlement of a messy divorce case. (Mostow: "Bruce is a professional ... I admire Bruce as an actor." A Willis spokesman: "Bruce has no problems with Jonathan Mostow at all.") (Read TIME's Surrogates report: "The Zen Machismo of Bruce Willis...
...other new releases fell below even Surrogates' wan totals. Dennis Quaid flopped with Pandorum ($4.4 million), yet another sci-fi movie starring an actor in his mid-50s. Nor is the remake of Fame gonna live forever: its third-place finish of $10 million was one more underperformer. Among the holdovers, only Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself showed any staying power. The Jennifer Aniston romance ($4.3 million) was a box-office wallflower. And how lifeless is the femme horror comedy Jennifer's Body ($3.5 million)? In her host monologue on Saturday Night Live this weekend...
...experiments. In the first, 95 undergraduate women were individually invited to a lab ostensibly to participate in a study about movie viewership. Before the film began, each woman was asked to help herself to a snack of either M&M's or granola. Another "participant," who was actually an actor hired by the research team, grabbed her food first, in full view of the subjects at the snack line. In her natural state, the phony participant weighed 105 lb. and wore a size 0. But in about half the cases, she wore a prosthetic designed by an Academy Award-winning...
Both the fat and the skinny versions of the actor scooped five tablespoons of food (approximately 71 g of granola or 108 g of M&M's) onto a plate. That's a heap. The subjects followed suit, taking more food than they normally would have had they eaten alone. However, the subjects took significantly higher portions when the actor was thin. During the movie - a five-minute clip from the Will Smith film I, Robot - they also ate significantly more if the actor was skinny. "It's our intuition sometimes that you don't want to eat with...
...face each other, but in this photograph, they sit on a stage. With this setting, the viewer does not feel as if she is intruding on an intimate moment or stumbling into an abandoned room occupied by the subjects, animate or inanimate, of the photograph. Instead, like a bad actor, these more recent images fail to give a convincing performance, and this apparent falseness also keeps Palma’s intended deeper meaning from captivating the viewer. In these digital photographs, any arms that protrude from a wall or hands that float in reverential pose do not evoke Palma?...